He copied and pasted on any Wigan related thread on every board.

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Awful game.

Hull defended well but made absolutely no impact in attack.

Wigan weren't fluent by any means but were the better team by a long way.

nope, just like in the cc final, you'll only find s**te in the WC too!

Having read this thread and various ones on totalrl.com and the virtual terrace - I obviously watched a different game on the iPlayer yesterday. It said it was between Wigan and Hull in the final of the Challenge Cup but it can't have been as the game I watched bore no relation to the comments on here and elsewhere.



The game I watched had a compelling first half with very few errors given the weather (it was absolutely tipping it down all day) and then a tight second half where key Hull players dropped key ball but much of this was because of the pressure put on them by the excellence of Smith's long kicking game which was superb - disecting winger and full back every time - meaning when they did have good field position they felt they had to nail it then rather than build pressure as they may not get another chance. Wigan out Hulled Hull (or did to them what they've done to to us twice this season.) If Shaule had have scored it would have been one of the great Wembley tries. But great defence from Charnley.



I appreciate I'm clearly in a minority but I enjoyed it! Given the conditions it was pretty good and Wigan played to the conditions. Hull's attack was nowhere near as bad as our handling against Widnes which was laughable - so completely disagree with the poster above. This was a much better match than that one.



Sally mentioned earlier RL fans are hypocrites - he's right. The number of threads I've read about blow out games, how people miss the tight games, NRL is all about defence not basketball like scores etc. We get a game like that in a mjaor final and it's the apocalypse.



Then it's the usual attendance hysteria - it's actually quite depressing just reading about people saying they're not coming any more, it's all , better in my day etc. etc. I actually enjoy the game of rugby league and accept it's not going to be breathtaking brilliance every week.



London aside (although they still beat SH) the SL this year has been tighter and more competitive than in recent years, we have a 'new' team due to win the LLS, we have the best batch of youngsters in 20 years - so good that the Aussies are now after our top talent. We have the world's best players coming over here and playing in some of the country's best stadia and across the heartlands of the sport from October.



I've geniunely been excited by the sport this year but I read these boards and it really does take the wind out of your sails. There's enough going on in the world to be depressed about - christ it's a sport - just enjoy it for what it is.

Huh? Hey I though Jeremy Begal had died!

No sorry It was a poor game for a final.....

Can I please request that you start posting in English? I've tried cutting and pasting what you have written into Google's translator, and the best suggestion it came up with was that you talk sloblock.

it means somebody is game for a laugh or staging a wind up. Doh!

or arguing the toss, black is white, or for the interest of cut and paste, bad is good!

or perhaps I should just refer the honourable gentleman back to the topic title and add a full stop instead of an exclamation mark.

I'm sure it would have been a wonderful game if the glamorous "Cup kings" were there... Sadly, you were not, and the RL world had to make do with second rate teams and a second rate match...